The Times They Are A-Changing
June 2nd, 2008 at 12:45pm Mark Noonan
Black Americans. Republicans. South Carolina - and a sign that we GOPers will no longer just write off the votes of oru fellow Americans who are black…we have the better program, and it is high time we helped them off the liberal plantation
Glenn McCall won a milestone intraparty election here during today’s state GOP convention to become South Carolina’s first black Republican National Committee member.
“It’s time for the Republican Party to get out of the foxhole. We need to go on the offense,” McCall said. “We need to come out and build bridges to new people. As a party, demographically, we’re hurting if we don’t.”
McCall, a retired Air Force officer who works for Bank of America in Charlotte and lives in Rock Hill, defeated interim RNC member Drew McKissick, a Columbia public affairs consultant with ties to the party’s Christian conservative wing. McCall is the York County GOP chairman, the state party’s only black county chairman.
Katon Dawson, the state Republican Party chairman, said McCall’s election was a “historic” one for South Carolina Republicans who have enjoyed only modest success in wooing blacks from the Democratic Party which usually gets 95 percent of their votes.
“There has been no leader in our party during my time as chairman who has been more passionate or authentic than Glenn McCall in living out the conservative ideals we hold dear,” Dawson said. “I couldn’t be prouder of his historic election as Republican National Committeeman from South Carolina. I look forward to serving with him.”
When the voting, alphabetically by counties, reached York County, McKissick made a motion that McCall be elected by acclamation and the voice vote followed.
Greenville Chairman Samuel Harms, who seconded McCall’s nomination, said, “It wasn’t even close” when York’s turn came.
In contrast to past outreach efforts that largely flopped, this year, five black Republicans are running in legislative primaries and two others are unopposed for legislative nominations, but face Democratic opposition in the general election.
Democrats have tagged us for years for an alleged “southern strategy” which claims we GOPers were just appealing to racist white Southerners…the reality, of course, is that white Southerners just don’t like pinkos, such as most Democratic leaders are. But we GOPers have failed miserably in our attempts to bring black voters back into the GOP (for 100 years, to be black meant to be Republican, after all), now we are starting to change that. Don’t expect it to happen over night - the left has very effective propaganda on this and they have successfully painted us as a party of racists…but as more and more black Americans rise to prominent positions in the GOP (and as black voters more and more understand they are taken for granted by the Democrats), we’ll have our opportunity to pitch the GOP message..and do a real “southern strategy”, where we take all the votes, black and white.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Racial Issues, Republicans
47 Comments
1. Jon Parker | June 2nd, 2008 at 2:09 pm
That’s pretty funny. Republicans elect a black Republican to a Republican party post and take as a sign they’re making inroads with African-American voters.
I’m really laughing here.
2. HarkeysBar | June 2nd, 2008 at 2:12 pm
“…and it is high time we helped them off the liberal plantation”
Love the slavery reference….
3. LiberalNitemare | June 2nd, 2008 at 4:15 pm
To be honest, the whitewash job that the democrats have done in regards to race is simply amazing.
They consistantly paint the republican party as racist, yet Robert Byrd is one of the most powerful democrats in government today.
Democratic history in regards to the civil rights movement is more than a little spotty, but somehow they get credit for that too.
Even now, the first black president is a white man (Bill Clinton), and racism in the democratic party is barely restrained as Obama tries to capture the party nomination.
I simply dont know how the democrats have pulled it off.
4. winnowhead | June 2nd, 2008 at 4:22 pm
So RNC Chief Ken Mehlman was lying when he apologized for the Southern Strategy?
5. Casper | June 2nd, 2008 at 6:21 pm
I’m just curious. How many black republicans are running for the House or Senate this year?
6. FmrMarine | June 2nd, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Mark;
Here is a good read.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307339467/dennismiller-20/ref=nosim
It is funny ALL if the racists from the 1800’s to the 1960’s were democrats, socialists, and marxists ( all the same today)
The KKK……..democrats
Byrd………………democrat
Gore.(elder)……democrat
all southern govoners….. who promoted segregation……democrat
Jim jones……Murdered more blacks than the KKK…………BIG time democrat.
etc etc etc……….do some research people the democrat party has a MASSIVE history of racist, murder and exclusion.
Dont even come here to lecture us about the Republican party. DO—SOME—RESEARCH!
7. FmrMarine | June 2nd, 2008 at 6:58 pm
casper;
>>>>I’m just curious. How many black republicans are running for the House or Senate this year?<<<
How many black DEMOCRATS ran for ANY seats from Alabama while george wallace was governor ?
OR…..ANY southern stats before the 1970’s when the REPUBLICANS led the vote on the civil rights bill which the donks HATED and voted AGAINST at every turn.
If you are under 30 DO SOME RESEARCH!!!!!!!
If you are over 30 then you probably watched the segregated ( democrat ) states turn, dogs, batoned police, fire hoses, and the KKK on blacks.
That IS the rat party history I believe the REBEL states and the much hated battle flag were ALL democrat led,
While Abe Lincoln was REPUBLICAN !
8. winnowhead | June 2nd, 2008 at 7:23 pm
A little simplistic FmrMarine.. Civil Rights Act votes by party and region clearly shows the breakdown.
The modern GOP has trouble with black voters because of the legacy of the southern strategy coming out of the Civil Rights Act. It’s not a coincidence that the South became a Republican stronghold following this vote. Denying the strategy of campaigning on racial divisions is putting your head in the sand. It’s more useful to acknowledge it and move past it. But giving you wingers’ continued race baiting on matters such as Rev Wright, forgive me if I would question the sincerity.
Really, though, historical comparisons are not totally useful. The parties have realigned on a left/right basis that didn’t apply in it’s current incarnation until the 70s and into the 80s. These days, “liberal republican” and “conservative democrat” are almost oxymorons.
9. Casper | June 2nd, 2008 at 7:28 pm
FmrMarine,
So I take it, the answer is zero.
As for your post, parties change over time. Sometimes for the better. Sometimes for the worse. The fact remains, that over 90% blacks vote democrat today.
10. gaijin | June 2nd, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Fmr Marine and LibNitemare,
What the two of you fail to take into account is that the Republicans who voted for the Civil Rights were Northern. The two parties began to change. The racist pro-segration “Dixiecrats” then swithced to the GOP. People such as Strom Thurman. Afterwhich, under the “Southern Strategy” blacks voted for Democrats and pro-segregation, some would say racist, southern white males voted Republican. It has largely remained the same since. It helps to have all the facts. Class dismissed.
Peace, Gaijin
11. Danish Artist | June 2nd, 2008 at 8:12 pm
If the Republican Party was so racist, why was MLK a registered Republican?
Fought to keep slavery….Democrats.
Fought integration….Democrats.
Fought civil rights legislation…Democrats.
Like Reagan, the Democratic Party left African-Americans.
Enough said.
12. FmrMarine | June 2nd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
minnowhead;
>>>>But giving you wingers’ continued race baiting on matters such as Rev Wright, forgive me if I would question the sincerity.>>>>
Pointing out FLAGRANT racism is NOT race baiting.
The “race baiting” of of the left belongs to….
Je$$E
AL
Calypso louie
malcolm
jarnel
wright
The NOI
PUSH
NAACP
The B. panthers
and many many others
do not patronize us with this babble.
13. Greg-O | June 2nd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
The so-called “Southern Strategy” of 1968 was George Wallace, end of story. Attempts to pin this on Richard Nixon are simply due to Democrats trying to shed their own racial legacy with Woodrow Wilson who introduced racial segregation into Federal departments with separate facilities, even to the point of installing partitions in office spaces when separate buildings weren’t available. The “Southern Strategy” is inconsistent with the same Nixon who signed Affirmative Action into law.
I applaud attempts by the GOP to reach out to blacks, but keep in mind that it is ideology that wins the day. Blacks are no different from anyone else when it comes to values, but they have, for too long, felt cornered into believing that only one party gives them voice, when in reality it takes them for granted. After all, Rod Page, Colin Powell, and Condoleeza Rice are groundbreakers in the levels of power achieved by blacks when merit and character are the criteria.
14. Hill Bottom | June 2nd, 2008 at 8:28 pm
“Drew McKissick, a Columbia public affairs consultant with ties to the party’s Christian conservative wing.”
Repugs spin it as a victory; I see it as another death nail in the incompetent conservative movement that has placed this country in a death spiral.
15. neocon | June 2nd, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Many forget that in 1962 George Wallace, eventual 1964 Democrat POTUS candidate, won the governorship of Alabama on a platform of “segregation forever”.
That’s just one generation removed.
But again, I am just a typical white person.
16. Greg-O | June 2nd, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Hill Bottom says “Repugs spin it as a victory; I see it as another death nail in the incompetent conservative movement that has placed this country in a death spiral.”
Do you mean the same Conservative movement that was used by two Democrats in recent special elections in Louisiana and Mississippi? Both Cazayoux and Childers, respectively, ran and won on pro-life, pro-gun, anti-tax hike platforms. Where is the “death nail”?
17. neocon | June 2nd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
I will also submit that some on this blog fail to understand that the Democrats controlled both houses for forty years ending in 1994. And one of their efforts was the “War on Poverty”. Secondly, Bill Clinton signed a welfare reform act, restricting benfits to the poor, which are often minorities, and did very little to raise the average standard of living amongst that subset.
In 1976, Jimmah Carter actually made things as bad as they have ever been for that group of people by double digit interest rates and double digit unemployment rates.
Today, minority home ownership is at an all time high.
peace, neocon
18. keystoneRepublican | June 2nd, 2008 at 10:09 pm
re: Casper | June 2nd, 2008 at 6:21 pm
“I’m just curious. How many black republicans are running for the House or Senate this year?”
Casper | June 2nd, 2008 at 7:28 pm
“FmrMarine,
So I take it, the answer is zero.
As for your post, parties change over time. Sometimes for the better. Sometimes for the worse. The fact remains, that over 90% blacks vote democrat today.”
Here’s one from Geogia’s 13th Congressional District:
Dr. Deborah Travis Honeycutt
I wish I could include the entire letter that was included with a fundraising mailer I received but here are a few quotes:
“…And I am the Democratic Party’s worst nightmare.
Why is that you ask?
Because I am a black Republican woman and I am running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.”
…
“For many years now, the Democrat Party has been selling the black community a bill of goods
They have been making worthless promises to entire generations of people.”
…
“I am so glad that someone is finally standing up to the liberal activitists like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson who have used race as a divisive and hurtful weapon for far too long.”
19. Kahn | June 2nd, 2008 at 10:16 pm
winnowhead - you’ve made that “So RNC Chief Ken Mehlman was lying when he apologized for the Southern Strategy?” post before.
No. But he was apologizing for writing off the black vote. As I’ve explained to you before, Republicans assumed that LBJ had locked the black vote with his “return to the plantation” strategy of government supplied welfare and housing. Maybe we were wrong in assuming that blacks would mindlessly vote Democrat forever so as to feed their addictions to government money. THAT is why he apologized.
Now personally, I don’t think so. Every time Republicans suggest something to get the black population standing on their own two feet we’re branded as racist by cynical and partisan people like you. I think that the blacks are lost to us.
Sadly, that means that they may never climb their way out of LBJ’s “plantation”. Slavery, institutionalized.
It’s sickening. Are you and your party proud of the economically stagnant inner cities you created? Of the morally bankrupt inner city gangsta mentality? Of the dissolution of the black family? You created this monster. But it votes Democrat, so I guess you’re OK with it.
20. winnowhead | June 2nd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
That poor blacks find reason to support Democrats due to their support of anti-poverty programs - which is obviously partly the case - doesn’t refute the existence of the southern strategy. Your logic is a little befuddled there.
Mehlman clearly indicated remorse from trying to benefit from “racial polarization.” This is the definition of the southern strategy - using southern, white resentment of forced desegregation and the Civil Rights Act to build a solid voting block. We don’t need Mehlman to show us this: what is noteworthy was he said it out loud, in what appeared to be a genuine attempt to move beyond the past. Why you want to deny that progress is beyond me.
21. Kahn | June 2nd, 2008 at 11:00 pm
winnowhead. Welfare and government are not “anti-poverty” programs. They are “poverty sustaining” programs.
Those programs went in in the mid-60’s right after Republicans joined with norther Democrats to pass Civil Rights and Voting Rights. Since then, these laws have steadily deteriorated the black family and decimated the black culture. Philadelphia and Milwaukee are YOUR parties legacy.
You mis-state the Southern Strategy. Possibly, you just don’t understand it. AGAIN - you refuse to understand the damage your party has done to buy votes. You call us racist for pointing it out.
The southern strategy was all about courting the churches and hunters. EXACTLY the crowd Obama recently attacked when speaking about Pennsylvania.
Now - you may have a problem with religion ( protected from jerks by the first amendment) or hunting and gun rights (protected from jerks by the second amendment) like Obama does. I don’t know. But your continued insistence on this mistaken view based upon one statement by one Republican is indicative of a very light reading regimen.
YOUR parties “Black Strategy” has decimated black society. How about you explain THAT?
22. Kahn | June 2nd, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Mehlman apologized for our party writing off the blacks so early. For assuming, AFTER LBJ, that he could buy off the blacks forever. Mehlman apologized for selling the blacks short. For assuming as did LBJ that they would take the bait and be bought by the Democrats.
Now - I don’t see the point in this. The blacks ARE bought now. Their families are in shambles. They feel “entitled” but see no way out of their dilemma. Drugs and alcohol are rampant. THIS is the legacy of LBJ.
You ought to consider apologizing for it.
23. Mortimer | June 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 am
There only thing more contemptible than left wing political correctness is right wing political correctness. So you think if you take away all the liberal MSM and Democrat types, the blacks are all going to turn into Thomas Sowells and Larry Elders? Get a grip on reality! Also, check yourselves in the mirror before you start hurling racism charges around because your ignorance is only exceeded by your hypocrisy. By the way, Senator Byrd has apologized and denounced the Klan, which he quit over 50 years ago. But I wouldn’t expect any of you holy than thou theocon to ever forgive anyone but yourselves. Good work, keep pandering to your base! Why make sense?
I mean after all, are not the Democrats, with their liberal Jewish elite also Nazis, cause they are both socialist?
24. winnowhead | June 3rd, 2008 at 1:10 am
Ho hum. You’re talking about one side an issue that deserves some merit, but you’re ignoring the actual point. Whether or not Great Society era programs had a net positive or negative effect is not a refutation of the GOP’s southern strategy.
Your party has become quite adept at drawing divisions between people. The “Southern Strategy” had nothing to do with hunting or churches; I don’t think you’re even fooling yourself by stating such. A definition may be in order, referring to Nixon’s strategy:
25. Dennis | June 3rd, 2008 at 1:12 am
neocon | June 2nd, 2008 at 8:37 pm: “Today, minority home ownership is at an all time high.”
“As it turns out, the increase in home ownership, especially among minorities, that Bush has repeatedly touted as one of his presidency’s main goals has been a bust: Yale economics professor Robert J. Shiller points out that foreclosures have pushed the national home ownership rate back to nearly the 67.5 percent it was when Bush took office, and it’s likely to fall further. Minority families, which received a disproportionate share of subprime loans, will bear the brunt…”
…Meanwhile, the Bush administration, which has repeatedly balked at the idea of any government help for borrowers facing foreclosure, has let the Fed underwrite a $30 billion bailout of Bear Stearns and extend an open-ended line of credit to the other investment banks that created the subprime bubble… Yes, we taxpayers now own this stuff.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/30/AR2008053002568_pf.html
26. Kahn | June 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 am
Mortimer. Don’t drink so much coffee so late at night.
Detroit, DC, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Cleaveland,…..Good job.
Your party has managed to convert the black population into a listless lethargic and thoroughly addicted voting block. Crime and drug use is rampant. School drop outs are common. Education is derided. Multiple out of wedlock births by multiple fathers. Human life is cheap - both unborn and fully mature. Murder rates are high despite guns being illegal in many urban areas. Unemployment is high. No wonder they think the country is messed up.
Welfare does not end poverty - it subsidizes it. Economic prosperity ends poverty. But here we see the total genius of LBJ. Because by now, the black community is so utterly shattered even economic prosperity can’t help. You’ve got to have ambition, and education, and work ethic, and HOPE. The LBJ subsidized slave state has lost hope.
You’re right Mortimer, we can’t break THAT lock. Again, good job.
27. Kahn | June 3rd, 2008 at 1:28 am
winnowhead - no. The southern strategy wasn’t about blacks. it ignored blacks. That is what we are sorry about. We didn’t fight hard enough against the programs you put in place to forever enslave the black communities.
Detroit, DC, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Cleveland, Chicago, Atlanta,…
These areas have been controlled for decades. You just can’t see it. You destroyed the black family and support structure. You took hope away from millions of blacks. Addicted them to government “charity” in a cynical move to buy their votes. Removed personal responsibility from the life equation.
The southern strategy was to embrace the churches (itself, a debatable move). To embrace “states rights”, and the right to bear arms. In short - the Republicans looked at what issues were important to southerners BESIDES race and moved to fill those needs.
By the way, THAT strategy is still valid in many ways. Obamas condescending remarks about clinging to God and guns probably cost him Pennsylvania. And might I note, he’s lost nearly every election since.
But I actually disagree with the premise of the original post. I think the black community and vote are hopelessly addicted to large government and not worth our time to court.
______________________________________
01/23/97 - 09:55 AM ET USA TODAY: “Just 18% of whites - but 58% of blacks - think the verdict was right, down from as much as a third of whites and nearly nine in 10 blacks in earlier polls.”
28. jayhay | June 3rd, 2008 at 1:32 am
Mark - If you actually want to understand a little more about blacks in America, Black Christians, and in this case Obama needing to leave his church, read this short piece.
http://areyouinvisible.blogspot.com/2008/06/on-leaving-church.html
29. Mark Noonan | June 3rd, 2008 at 1:44 am
jayhay,
Interesting, but its based on the false premise that Trinity is not a completely racist and anti-American church. If the writer wants to contend that Trinity represents anything other than a sick abberation, then that is his business - I prefer to have more respect for my fellow Americans who are black, many of whom I am happy to call my brothers and sisters in Christ.
30. winnowhead | June 3rd, 2008 at 1:54 am
Kahn, you’re delusional. The effect of anti-poverty programs is something that is interesting to debate, but you’re simply changing the subject. If you think the southern strategy wasn’t about race, you should deny that it exists in the first place. Quote all the proxy issues you want - the southern strategy is by definition about racial divisiveness.
31. Mark Noonan | June 3rd, 2008 at 2:00 am
winnow,
Your quote, of course, is from a 1970 profile of Kevin Phillips, who couldn’t stand all those anti-commie conservatives (like, say, Ronald Reagan) who were dragging down the GOP, in his opinion…he also didn’t like all those Christians in the party…and this is why his most recent book is American Theocracy - which hits out hard at the entire GOP and the conservative, Christian movement.
He’s one of yours winnow, and you’re welcome to him. We don’t need that sort of cynical turncoat on the right..and he’s fitting very well into the left.
32. winnowhead | June 3rd, 2008 at 2:11 am
You’re at least 30 years late with the pinko nonsense. It was beyond ridiculous then, and now just a cliche of a cliche.
33. Pain | June 3rd, 2008 at 6:37 am
6. FmrMarine | June 2nd, 2008 at 6:41 pm
True and after the Civil and Voting Rights Acts were signed, by a Democratic party President Lyndon Johnson, they got together with Nixon’s people and crossed the road to the wqelcoming arms of the GOP and that solid republican south can traces its roots back to Nathan Bedford Forrest. Who did you think all those GOP southerners were ABOLITIONISTS?
34. Pain | June 3rd, 2008 at 6:40 am
11. Danish Artist | June 2nd, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Because in that time Goldwater was a better option than Wallace in the White House.
We think what people are missing is not that the black man is a republican but the FIRST republican ever from South carolina in the history of the state. Oh now that is progress.
35. Pain | June 3rd, 2008 at 6:46 am
12. FmrMarine | June 2nd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
And if race is a sensitive issue with progressives what about Culture War/Religion baiting from your side in the form of
John Hagee
Pat Robertson
Paula White
Joel Osteen
Judge Roy Moore
Mike Farris
Tony Perkins
James Dobson
Reverend Johnny Hunt
William Donohue
Beverly LaHaye
Could you please take their useless prattle off Our TV sets?
36. jayhay | June 3rd, 2008 at 10:11 am
Mark says: “Interesting, but its based on the false premise that Trinity is not a completely racist and anti-American church.” And I’m saying that is the basis of your total misunderstanding of Black America, and more broadly of other’s personal forms of pariotism. You do not get to define what patriotism is for others.
If you are interested in bringing Black America into the GOP, you’ll need to let go of that response to what they are saying. You’re are drawing a line in the sand that will insure the GOPs irrelevance. And parts of Black America will continue to say it, whether you listen or not. But there is an opportunity for you to begin to understand someone different than you.
37. Tractatus | June 3rd, 2008 at 11:32 am
The southern strategy was all about courting the churches and hunters.
But Mark Noonan said it was about hatin’ commies! Can’t you guys get your historical redefinitions straight?
But we know how much you love to try to rewrite history to make it say what you want rather than what’s true, Kahn. And that’s not to mention your less-than-favorable view of the black community. So this post was gonna be catnip for you.
Anyway, here’s what you guys are forgetting: The southern strategy, the civil rights movement…these things weren’t that long ago. There are still lots of people alive who went through them, and they know what these things were about, and that’s why they don’t vote for you guys: They remember what you did. Your little historical whitewash might actually work eventually, but you’re going to have to wait another generation or two until there are no more living, breathing testimonials to how cartoonishly wrong you are.
38. djp | June 3rd, 2008 at 2:35 pm
“Democrats have tagged us for years for an alleged “southern strategy” which claims we GOPers were just appealing to racist white Southerners”
“Alleged” - hilarious. There is nothing in dispute of the southern strategy. The phrase “Southern Strategy” was coined by GOP pollsters. Nixon, Reagan, Atwater and to some extent Bush I embraced. Ken Mehlman apologized for it. But to mark it is “alleged” - this type of revisionist history is dangerous, because many people do not remember the past personally - even the recent past - so people like mark can make these ridiculous claims and not get laughed out of the room, and then someone who heard the claim, repeats it to others, and that is how these lies propogate.
39. djp | June 3rd, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Many forget that in 1962 George Wallace, eventual 1964 Democrat POTUS candidate, won the governorship of Alabama on a platform of “segregation forever”.
Indeed, and all those Wallace voters are good old conservatives. Today they are the GOP base. That is the success of the Southern Strategy writ large. In 1980, it wasn’t Wallace or Faubus talking about States Rights in Philadelphia, it was Ronald Reagan.
40. Pansy | June 3rd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
When I was in high school, the principal was a drunken lout who could use the word “pinko” in a sentence without irony.
That was a very long time ago and yet his behaviour seemed hilariously dated even then.
Since we’ve turned Russia from an impoverished backwater to the greatest gift international organized crime ever received, may we retire the word “pinko”?
41. Kahn | June 3rd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Tractatus - sorry, I think for myself. Your side is the talking point zombie side. Thanks for pointing that out.
Now, on with your “chant-of-the-day”.
42. Tractatus | June 3rd, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Gee, Kahn, I’m kind of disappointed you consider actual history to be “the talking point zombie side.” But given your hostility toward education, I’m not surprised. What’s the matter, not enough about guns in this subject to get you interested enough to learn about it?
43. Danish Artist | June 3rd, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Civil Rights Act voting:
Vote totals
Totals are in “Yea-Nay” format:
The original House version: 290-130 (69%-31%)
The Senate version: 73-27 (73%-27%)
The Senate version, as voted on by the House: 289-126 (70%-30%)
By party
The original House version:
Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%-39%)
Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%)
The Senate version:
Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%-31%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)
The Senate version, voted on by the House:
Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%-37%)
Republican Party: 136-35 (80%-20%)
By party and region
Note : “Southern”, as used in this section, refers to members of Congress from the eleven states that made up the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. “Northern” refers to members from the other 39 states, regardless of the geographic location of those states.
The original House version:
Southern Democrats: 7-87 (7%-93%)
Southern Republicans: 0-10 (0%-100%)
Northern Democrats: 145-9 (94%-6%)
Northern Republicans: 138-24 (85%-15%)
The Senate version:
Southern Democrats: 1-20 (5%-95%) (only Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas voted in favor)
Southern Republicans: 0-1 (0%-100%) (this was Senator John Tower of Texas)
Northern Democrats: 45-1 (98%-2%) (only Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia opposed the measure)
Northern Republicans: 27-5 (84%-16%) (Senators Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, Barry Goldwater of Arizona, Edwin L. Mechem of New Mexico, Milward L. Simpson of Wyoming, and Norris H. Cotton of New Hampshire opposed the measure)
Numbers speak for themselves. Without Republican support the Democrats did not have enough votes to make it out of either chamber since so many Democrats voted against the measure.
Senators Albert Gore Sr. (D-TN), J. William Fulbright (D-AR), and Robert Byrd (D-WV). Goldwater went on to secure his party’s nomination for the presidency, and in the ensuing election, Goldwater won only Arizona and five of the Deep South states, two of which (Alabama and Mississippi) had not voted Republican since the disputed presidential election of 1876.
Albert Gore Sr., Robert Byrd and J. William Fullbright (Clinton’s hero and mentor) voted against???? Impossible!
44. Mark Noonan | June 4th, 2008 at 2:01 am
jayhay,
Hmmm…no, I’ll take the word of black friends of mine who are disgusted with Wright and Pfleger and can’t believe that Obama would belong to such a church.
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